I always interpret it as legs

I know, right? I tried cutting one in half with a knife and it was like trying to cut a nylon belt with a butter knife - virtually impossible, and the lil guy didn’t even feel it!

Honestly no clue. I’ve seen the term on the bug’s Wikipedia page first, and it stuck with me since.

I’ve looked into the word itself a bit and interestingly it seems like it’s only ever used to refer specifically to the Hippoboscidae family. Weird name for a shoe brand 😅

And yeah, perfectly engineered is just about the best way to describe them. Their exoskeletons are crazy strong - no amount of stomping will kill them, and I mean that wholeheartedly. One time I had to burn one to a crisp with a lighter because I had no other choice, and the little guy didn’t want to leave my house.

I hate these little guys! Or at least a relative of them - the deer ked (Lipoptena cervi).

Very well adapted to their environment to the point of impressiveness, so I do have respect for them, but that doesn’t change the fact that they’re so hard to remove from clothing! At least most of them don’t bother with biting into humans.

Oh right, didn’t notice the post body. I gotta be honest, I haven’t seen a modern-ish phone with a square screen before 😅 Looks awesome!

Wow, what a sight! Surprised there was a Lineage ROM for this. What model is this?

True that. Possibly the reason the Redmi 9 Lineage ROM became discontinued, maybe it just wasn’t worth the effort.

aye, i’ve only played with mtk chipsets with lancelot (redmi 9) and one other phone i can’t remember (it was an oldie, released around 2016 - i think it was the redmi note 4?)

generally from what i remember (this was a good couple years ago) the mtk exploit lets you pretty painlessly unlock most mediatek xiaomi phones, and should still work just fine to this day - haven’t really seen anything change in the mediatek sphere lately. ironically in contrast to you i remember looking out specifically for mediatek devices because of this exploit (and purely because it skipped the waiting time, otherwise mtk phones should unlock just like qualcomm ones (though according to the xiaomi unlock wall of shame (linked in Kroko’s comment) phones with unisoc chipsets are not unlockable, but at the same time i have yet to see a unisoc xiaomi phone)).

i remember the particular tool i used but no matter what i try i can’t find it anywhere anymore. even then you can still find many exploit tools and guides on the web. after a quick search i found the ‘main’ mtkclient tool (this one), and guides on xiaomiui and droidwin (i recommend going with droidwin, since i trust it, and it uses the main tool i linked, while xiaomiui gives you a tool from a random sharepoint server, which is… uh… yknow)

i also unlock all xiaomi stuff through a virtual machine, and i recommend you do the same, since stuff around unlocking xiaomi phones is often very sketch (that, and also it usually leaves tons of junk on your pc you’ll never use again). virtualbox offers the simplest way to do this, though if you’re running something like QEMU/KVM everything should still be possible.

also i’ve noticed that modern xiaomi phones use qualcomm chipsets exclusively, so if you want to aim for mediatek phones, you’ll only be able to find low-performance ones. if you want an mtk xiaomi phone, i can recommend the redmi 9 - i’ve used it for 4 years before i switched, and it’s a very feature rich phone with decent performance (200k score on AnTuTu v8, while something more modern, like the Mi 10T Pro i’m currently using has a score of over 550k), currently runs for $40-80 on the used market (at least on my end), and is officially supported by LineageOS (nevermind, it’s officially discontinued, but it still receives updates from time to time, and you can still build the ROM yourself and install it)

Sweet! I better get to work while it’s still possible.

Precisely. You need to keep winning, while they just need to win once. Would love it if repeat offenders like these would just stop being considered entirely after being rejected multiple times.

Well, until we see people randomly floating or chunks of the world disappearing, the answer will probably remain “who knows”

Ayep! It worked just fine during those 8 mags in that edit, but then started malfunctioning in the same way again.

Alright, done! I tried to film the gun having trouble firing but weirdly enough it was functioning just fine this time around. I’ll check on it again tomorrow.

Sure thing! I’ll disassemble the gun real quick and snap a few pics, and append them to the post body. Give me one hour max.

Yep, if it were a GBB it would pretty much be a gas issue, but temperature problems are basically non existent on GNBs with CO2 systems, which this one is (different thing with green gas), so that’s why I disregarded it.

Not really a weird dream other than the fact that it happened at all, considering I’ve rarely been getting any dreams recently.

Dreamt about waking up to see the new university timetable be only days starting from 6 AM, except for Monday which started at 4 AM.

I was honestly so used to bullshit like this I didn’t even realise I was dreaming and had a panic attack inside of the dream.

From my past dreams, however, I remember having a machete duel to the death with Thanos. I don’t remember who won.

Glad to know I’m not alone. Surely there’s something behind the veil, right? Right?

No to both.

No to smoking because it stinks, it’s expensive, and it deteriorates everything around you and inside you.

And no to drinking because it has ruined the lives of everyone around me, which in turn partially ruined mine as well.

Polish drinking culture is devastating, even among Gen Z. Lost too many of my friends to alcohol - somehow each and every one of them who started went into a downwards spiral and became a shell of their former self.

My home stopped giving me the feeling of safety as my parents’ alcohol-induced fights stripped it away. Same thing happened to my university dorm, as 9 times out of 10 I’d come back to a room that had vomit everywhere and my drunk roommate laying unconscious on the floor.

I don’t know if I’m a magnet for these kinds of people or what, but because of that I’ve been against alcohol ever since I first learned what the word meant.

i think he might’ve

gotta bring this up every time i see these